NSERC CHONe 2 - Conservation Strategies in Canada's Changing Oceans

加拿大的海洋极大地促进了我们的经济、健康和文化。尽管如此，海洋资源面临的越来越大的压力表明，有必要加强海洋的可持续性，了解不同的活动将如何改变海洋生物资源。NSERC加拿大健康海洋网络(CHONE I 2008-2014)与学术界和政府(主要是加拿大渔业和海洋组织)合作开发工具，以协助评估海洋多样性和海洋变化。NSERC Chone II将应用这些知识来帮助我们的合作伙伴管理可持续的海洋使用。我们将帮助实现加拿大《海洋法》中概述的关键科学和保护目标，并支持最近制定的国家保护计划下的活动。具体地说，我们将继续与DFO合作，并增加对可持续海洋发展感兴趣的新合作伙伴，以提高海洋保护区等具体管理干预措施的有效性并提供指导，并在不同生态系统州存在多种变化驱动因素的情况下了解这些战略的有效性。我们将制定战略，评估(状况指标)保护努力的切实成果，优化(规划战略)这些干预措施，并评估不同的压力如何影响生物反应，包括提供有助于维持生命的关键生态系统功能和服务。虽然我们经常可以预测污染等个人压力如何影响海洋多样性，但很少有数据来检验多重压力的累积影响。管理战略的成功应用取决于对这些驱动因素的理解。具体成果包括：(1)确定确定不同海洋生态系统的复原力和脆弱性的生态特征 管理行动的背景；(2)用于评估现状和变化驱动因素以及管理行动效力的指标和有效的抽样设计；(3)不同管理行动的比较；(4)沿海生态数据的储存库。我们将在战略地理位置完成这项研究，以提供对其他地区适用性的新理解。

Canada's oceans add immensely to our economy, health, and culture. Nonetheless, increasing pressures on ocean resources point to a need to enhance ocean sustainability and understand how different activities will change marine living resources. The NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe I 2008-2014) partnered academia and government (predominantly Fisheries and Oceans Canada-DFO) to develop tools to aid in assessing ocean diversity and ocean change. NSERC CHONe II will apply that knowledge to assist our partners in managing sustainable ocean use. We will help to achieve key scientific and conservation objectives outlined in Canada's Ocean Act and support activities under the recently established National Conservation Plan. Specifically, we will continue to partner with DFO and add new partners interested in sustainable ocean development to enhance and provide guidance on the efficacy of specific management interventions such as Marine Protected Areas, and to understand the efficacy of these strategies given multiple drivers of change across various ecosystem states. We will develop strategies to evaluate (status indicators) tangible results of conservation efforts and optimize (planning strategies) those interventions, and to assess how different pressures influence biological response, including delivery of key ecosystem functions and services that help sustain life. Although we can often predict how individual pressures such as pollution influence marine diversity few data exist to test cumulative impacts of multiple pressures. Successful application of management strategies hinges upon understanding these drivers. Specific deliverables include: (1) identification of ecological characteristics that define the resilience and vulnerability of different marine ecosystems in the context of management actions; (2) indicators and effective sampling designs for evaluating status and drivers of change, as well as efficacy of management actions; (3) comparison of different management actions given multiple and often cumulative stressors and; (4) a repository for coastal ecological data. We will complete this research in strategic geographic locations to provide new understanding with applicability elsewhere.